Acclaimed Flop: Throughout its run, The Legend of Korra struggled to maintain consistent ratings with the actual target demographic despite a lot of positive reviews. While Season 1 maintained strong ratings, season 2's switch to Friday nights saw the series' ratings start to freefall. By season 3, ratings got low enough to the point where Nick completely pulled it off air, and ran the remainder of episodes they ordered exclusively online. That being said, the series remained very popular with older audiences and had a really strong online presence.

"Book: Air" was a very common name for fan sequels, in keeping with the Theme Naming of the show's seasons, as it was the only main element remaining that did not have its own season. The first season of Korra is titled "Book One: Air".

When the series was initially announced as The Last Airbender: The Legend Of Korra, some fans rejected the Artifact Title and its association with the much-disliked film adaptation, instead referring to the series as The Legend Of Korra. Official sources soon followed suit.

Two of Aang and Katara's kids are named Kya and Bumi, after Katara's mother and Aang's oldest friend. Fanfiction writers named hypothetical daughters of Katara "Kya" years before The Legend of Korra was ever announced.

Fans have speculated that if airbenders weren't such adamant pacifists, they could be very effective at killing people by simply bending the air out of their lungs and making them suffocate. In "Long Live The Queen", Zaheer does just that.

Korra and Asami started out as little more than a Crack Ship mostly in protest of the stilted Love Triangle in the first two seasons. Suffice it to say, it grew.

There were jokes that the new Firelord was named 'Zutara' by Zuko choosing to name her after Katara but giving it a Fire Nation twist by putting a "zu" in, thus finally making Zutara "canon" in a way. Book 3 revealed her name as "Izumi" but she was indeed named in honor of Katara (Izumi means "spring of water").

Casting Gag: In the Russian dub, Olga Shorokhova, the voice of Korra, has voiced the previous Avatar, Aang, in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Creator's Favorite: Asami Sato. She was initially meant to be The Mole but Bryke ended up loving her too much to follow through with that. They ended up rewriting her into being a good guy and later Promoted to Love Interest. Luckily, Asami also became very popular with the fans, so everything worked out well.

Jinora Gran-Gran, I've been reading all about your old adventures; I've been dying to ask you; what happened to Zuko's mom?Katara: Well, Jinora, it's an incredible tale— Ikki:[interrupting] Gran Gran, you look old. How old are you? Why is it so cold in the South Pole? Can we sit around a fire and play games and tell scary stories and make snowmen? And then could you make the snowman move with waterbending and chase us? Wouldn't that be fuuuun? [Jinora hangs her head in disappointment]

Dueling Dubs: The show has two Russian translations made for two different channels, one of which was a Voiceover Translation. Both translations seem to have almost the same script. The 2x2 voiceover only covers the first season, while the dub covers all four. When 2x2 started airing books 2-4, they used the dub instead of voiceover. Strangely, Korra's VA is the same in both the dub and voiceover. Even stranger, it's the same VA that voiced Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender dub.

Brolin for Bolin. Even more appropriate now that we know about his lady-killing ways.

Mama!Mako is becoming quite popular on account of Mako's doting and protective ways.

Sparkly Sparkly Bush Man for the park-dwelling vagabond Korra meets in the first episode (after Sokka's temporary name for Combustion Man of the original series). Secondary sources later revealed his real name as Gommu.

Korralition or Krew for the new iteration of Team Avatar, as their in-universe team name, the Fire Ferrets, wasn't known to the fandom until early March 2012.

Many of the characters have earned themselves superhero themed nicknames. Lin has also been dubbed "Iron Lin" for the way she puts on her armor, and "Wonder Lin" both for being amazing and the fan theory that Toph created her via earthbending. General Iroh has earned the nickname "Iroh Man" after the finale, and Mako has been dubbed "Batmako" for his similarities to Batman in episode 3.

Big Daddies for the mecha tanks introduced in episode 7, especially due to the diving suit inspiration.

Korramobile for the Satomobile the Krew rides in when hunting Equalists in Episode 8 is somewhat popular given all the Batman undertones.

"Honora" for Zuko's daughter (the current firelord) before Word of God revealed her name is Izumi.

Kai has already acquired the rather unfortunate nickname of "Shitstain", on account of him being an arrogant little twerp.

Before her name was revealed, a common nickname for Ming-Hua was "Lady Crazy-eyes".

A better nickname for her now would be, "Ms. No-Limbs.

Suyin's artistic son, Huan, has gained the moniker "Skrillex" from some fans, because they share some similiarities in appearance.

Before they were revealed as the Red Lotus, Zaheer, P'Li, Ming-Hua and Ghazan were known—on this wik—as the Irregular Benders. Other names included the "Exbendables," the "Four-Nation Army," the "Doomsday Squad," and the "anti-Team Avatar."

P'Li in particular was called either the Combustion Woman or Sparky Sparky Boom Ma'am, as a reference to the man from the first series also capable of such a power.

Friday Night Death Slot: Book 2 aired Friday night instead of Saturday morning. By the numbers, it is down about 1-2 million viewers per episode than last season. And then they push it back another hour without warning, leading to another drop of a million viewers. Book 3 remained in the Friday night slot until it was taken off the air completely for an online-only release.

God Never Said That: Despite the quote from Andrea Romano being that the original cast might as well be dead, for all of the impact they'll have on the plot, numerous people still insist she declared the entire cast to be dead and gone, accusing her of being mistaken or lying when it was proved otherwise.

"And The Winner Is...": Lin was the third person in Tenzin and Pema's Love Triangle.

"The Aftermath": One of the Satos is working with the Equalists. It was a long time theory. Also, mechas. Super bonus points for those who saw the blueprints way back in episode 1.

"Out Of The Past": Tarrlok is Yakone's son, and Amon has a means of protecting himself from bloodbending.

"Skeletons In The Closet": Tarrlok is Amon's brother—his younger brother. Tumblr went on fire for that one. And Amon is a bender—and a bloodbender.

In fact, pretty much every major plot point was successfully predicted. The only one that wasn't was the joke prediction that the parent-murdering firebender is a waterbending Serial Killer named A. Firebender.

Book Two: Spirits

Combined with Hilarious in Hindsight is that Avatar/Naruto crossover fics were common due do the fact that the designs weren't horribly dissimilar. Cue Studio Pierrot, Naruto's animation studio, animating for Book 2 of Korra.

"The Sting": Many people were not the least bit surprised that Varrick turned out to be a Corrupt Corporate Executive who staged the attacks on his own vessels so he could buy out Future Industries.

"Harmonic Convergence": Unalaq reveals his master plan, to become the Dark Avatar by merging with Vaatu like Wan did with Raava. Lots of people saw that coming a mile off, but most dismissed it because it was so ridiculous. Joke's on them, eh? The giant battle between Korra and Unalaq was also unexpected.

Book 3: Change

"In Harm's Way": When P'Li mentioned she had been locked up for thirteen years, some fans did the math and theorized that the Red Lotus were imprisoned for attempting to attack/kidnap Korra when she had just been revealed as the Avatar. They were bang on the money.

"Long Live The Queen": As soon as Zaheer was introduced, the fandom just knew he'd get to show off what airbending could do if it weren't in the hands of a pacifist. The most horrifying possibility is that they could suck the air out of somebody's lungs. Come episode 10, Zaheer proved them right.

"Enter The Void": After a season of failing to metalbend, many fans began to speculate that Bolin would instead be revealed to be capable of lavabending. This got confirmed in this episode.

Book 4: Balance

"Korra Alone": Numerous predictions abounded about the nature of Toph's reappearance - those that were proved right were 1) she would be a Cliffhanger right at the end of her first episode 2) Korra would meet her in the Foggy Swamp, where Aang first "met" her 3) Toph would make a joke about her blindness - "It's good to see you again." 4) Toph would call Korra "Twinkle-Toes".

Likewise, many fans believed that Aang would still be doing his "marble trick" as an adult. Then in this episode, a proud seafood-seller shows off his picture of Aang performing the same trick with two sushi rolls!

"Operation Beifong": many fans guessed that Zhu Li was faking her loyalty to Kuvira in order to sabotage her plans.

In the first episode this season, astute viewers caught onto Kuvira's mostly filled in map having slots occupied by the location of the United Republic, and guessed that she would try to conquer it as well as the Earth Empire. The ending to "Operation Beifong" confirms it.

When fans saw the title "Kuvira's Gambit", many of them reasoned that she would, as the title implies, sacrifice something willingly for her victory. Many fans guessed she would sacrifice her fiancé, Baatar Jr. And they were right.

Many viewers had Hiroshi Sato pegged as dead as soon as his first appearance this season since his capture and defeat at the end of Book 1.

Invisible Advertising: Book 3 went from announcement to air in roughly a month after four episodes were leaked from Nick's Mexican affiliate. Book 4, being broadcast entirely online, got it even worse. The announcement came merely three weeks prior, with no television advertising.

Steve Blum as Amon, Clancy Brown as Yakone, and Lance Henriksen as The Lieutenant are the only major exceptions so far.

PJ Byrne starred in quite a few medical and/or legal dramas before being cast as Bolin.

Mako's voice actor David Faustino was best known for his role on Married... with Children as the sane, smart, yet perpetually dateless son, Bud Bundy. In the first season, Mako has many fangirls and dates two women.

Mindy Sterling (Lin Beifong) and Janet Varney (Korra) are best known for comedic roles.

Production Throwback: Naga the Polar Bear-Dog, Korra's animal guide and occasional transport for the new Team Avatar, was originally going to be Aang's waaaay back before the series was fully realized- sketches and concepts for this can be seen in the Avatar: The Last Airbender official art-of book.

Promoted Fanboy: Janet Varney was a big fan of the original series even before auditioning for the role of Korra, needless to say she was stoked to hear that she'd booked the part.

Reality Subtext: Probably not intentional, but it's been noted that the Book 3 premiere's title "A Breath of Fresh Air" is very apt, with many fans finding it a huge improvement after the Seasonal Rot of Book 2.

Book 1 was aired on Saturdays with a great deal of promotion, and it got very high ratings. But for Book 2 the channel gave less promotion and moved it to the Friday Night Death Slot. The Book 2 premiere only had half the ratings of the Book 1 premiere. Then with little warning, the show was pushed back an hour and ratings fell in half again. See how bad the numbers got. Whether intentional or not, the network screwed this show hard.

When Bryan Konietzko announced the time change, he added that it may have been done to try and counter-act this. It kinda worked for episode 9.

Book 3 received shockingly little marketing for what's ostensibly the network's flagship show, with the return date only being announced a few weeks in advance. This may have been related to theShort Run in Peru leak of four Book 3 episodes. In any case, the ratings dropped even further. Then, after four weeks of new episodes, covering episodes 1 to 7, Nick pulled episode 9 from the schedule and moved the entire series to a weekly release on their website. Ironically, this was after a bizarre set of ads that asserted the season could only be seen on television.

Then later as the season progressed, the antagonists started discussing anarchism and the bodies started hitting the floor, leading some fans to think Nickelodeon moved the show online due to its content. Though the Season 3 episodes later started airing on TV in late September, and hadn't finished by the time Book 4 started.

Book 4 aired entirely online, and not even a month and a half after Book 3's finale (and the TV premiere of the last few episodes of Season 3 are still yet to finish). This, along with further lack of advertising not dissimilar to Book 3, has led to fandom outrage that Nick is trying to "shove Korra out the door."

Played with in the final scenes of the series finale, many blamed Nick for the ambiguity of it, and assumed that Bryke had to sneak it in without the studio's knowledge, but after Bryke confirmed Korra and Asami were a couple online, they mentioned that the Studio was supportive of the idea, though due to their Standards and Practices would only allow so much to be shown. So the studio is the reason for the ambiguity, but the scene was done with them fully knowing what was being expressed.

Short Run in Peru: Kinda. Several episodes of the Spanish dub of Book 3 were leaked onto the internet before Book 3 aired anywhere. This may have caused Book 3 to air prematurely with little marketing.

Shrug of God: Bryan has admitted that even he has no idea how Jinora helped Korra defeat UnaVaatu in the Book 2 finale, and that any of the fan-theories about this are technically correct as a result. This was mocked in "Remembrances" with Varrick calling her "queen of the fairies."

Star-Making Role: Korra's voice, Janet Varney, had previously been well known for hosting Dinner and a Movie (a movie wraparound program) on TBS.

Talking to Himself: In the Russian dub, Korra & Meelo are voiced by the same voice actress. Same applies to Asami, Ikki and Jinora.

A scene in "The Spirit of Competition" where Mako is angrily walking through a door and completely ignores a fan trying to say hi ("Hey Makooooo-oh") originated when someone drew a random extra standing next to Mako in the animatic and the episodes director thought he looked disappointed.

There was an In-Universe case in a mover where Bolin kisses an actress in a scene where he wasn't supposed to and the director decided to keep the kiss.

There's also something pretty suspect about releasing a trailer that features Korra and Mako kissing the day before April Fool's, even if it actually did happen.

It feels like the episode "The Spirit of Competition" was trolling all the shippers at once.

The reveal that Toph's daughters have different fathers feels like this. Ever since Lin's introduction much speculation has gone into who her father is, but the fact that neither her nor her sister knows who their respective fathers are has opened the door for a whole slew of speculation, no doubt sparking shipping wars by the mere implication that the popular Tokka ship is potentially canon. Then came "Operation Beifong", which resolved Lin's father in five seconds as some unknown guy named Kanto. Expecting some big reveal, huh?

The day before "Remembrances" aired, Nickelodeon tweeted "Will Masami return tomorrow? You're gonna have to wait to find out! ;)" The answer was no.

For Book 4, it was mentioned that Varrick's childhood would be explored at some point. Right up until the finale, people wondered how they'd address that... then Varrick uses an out-of-context anecdote as a comparison for how he has been treating Zhu Li, before mentioning that he was taken away by circus people, leaving more hilarious questions than answers.

Korra Nation. The point was to get people to inform their friends of the show by having automatic posts show up on you Facebook/Twitter profile for people to click. The person sending the posts earned points for every link clicked and every person who signed up using their personal link, with the points going towards prizes including a drawing for a trip to this summer's SDCC and exclusive MP3 releases of music from the show.

Another branch of Korra Nation dealt with gaining likes, shares, and tweets of the Korra Nation website; on which fans could discover hidden content such as production sketches and background art. Sharing the site 100,00 times would allow fans to see the premiere a week early. It earned 100,000 points within the first week of its announcement, and as promised the first two episodes were available online on March 24th.

The Korra Nation website no longer exists, but the viral marketing continues with the Korra Nation tumblr and facebook pages. Art, production information, and clips of the upcoming episodes are posted to these pages once or twice a week.

The creators planned to have Zhu Li and Bolin develop a romantic relationship but they ended up with different people in the end.

Mako's Heroic Sacrifice in Book 4 was originally going to have him being Killed off.

Hasook was originally going to have a larger role in the show with a family and kids, but Bryan Konietzko had the idea cut out for time saving purposes.

Originally, Hasook was to be captured by Amon's henchmen, and Korra, Mako, and Bolin were going to go after him. However, he was later replaced in the scene by Bolin.

Asami was not going to last past Book 1, she was supposed to be join the United Forces. This is why she does not appear on any promotional material or even the official Nick website. Mike and Bryan also joked about her becoming romantically involved with Iroh II.

Asami Sato was originally intended to be an Equalist spy, but during the first season's scripting process Mike and Bryan decided that 1) she wouldn't have much use in the story after her intended mid-season villainous reveal, and 2) was too cool a character to waste that way.

Ironically the concept has proven quite popular among fan-fiction writers with many AU fic's keeping Asami as an equalist, often starting out as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who while undercover comes to care about the Krew, especially Korra after the ending of season four. There are some though who like to point out that that story basically mirrors Zuko's story, which some don't like, while others see that as perfectly fine.

At one point Asami was going to be among the characters who would gain Airbending abilities after Harmonic Convergence.

There were plans to revisit the "foamy mouth guy" gag from the previous series, with the twist that the crazy fan was rooting for Amon instead of the heroes. It got dropped because they felt that the joke clashed too much with Amon's general creepiness.

Initially there was going to be a flashback detailing the Red Lotus' kidnapping of young Korra, but was dropped for time.

The Fire Lord family was going to play a bigger role in Book 4 with the introduction of Fire Lord Izumi's daughter but other than Izumi, the creators couldn't find a way to add them in an Earth Kingdom focused story. Also the Fire Lord's daughter was going to be introduced as a love interest to Mako but in the end, they decided to have him remain single and focus on his friendship with the Krew and Wu instead.

The "Remembrances" episode. It was intended to be this show's version of the "The Ember Island Players" but, as stated above, network interference forced it to be changed into a simple clip show, albeit emulating the aforementioned episode.

Inverted in some way with the Finale. The creators mentioned they didn't want to look back at it in twenty years and regret not going as far as they could for Korra and Asami's romantic relationship.

Even that was subject to changes, since it was considered for Korra to be with Mako in Book One and nobody (alongside the rest of the lead cast) in Book Two. They were also originally going to keep Korra and Asami's relationship confined to subtext due to uncertainty about how far Nickelodeon would let them take it.

Word of Dante: Fanon has long speculated that Kya is a lesbian, a belief perpetuated by someone on tumblr posting a statement that was allegedly from the creators (though unconfirmed and unverified) that Kya was "part of the lgbtqia+ community". Though as it's been confirmed by the leaked comic scans, this may be Ascended Fanon.

Mike and Bryan clarified a number of details concerning events that bridge the two series, such as who's ruling the Fire Nation in Zuko's stead and why Aang was only in his 60s when he died.

It was later clarified due to potential ambiguity that Ghazan and Ming-Hua were both killed.

The NYCC panel revealed that the airbending wingsuits featured in Book 4 were designed by Asami herself.

On October 23, Mike and Bryan had a Q & A chat on The Other Wiki that answered some questions about the show.

Both Mike and Bryan have confirmed the Korra/Asami pairing as canonical. The reason it was a little ambiguous is due to standards and practices only allowing so much, but Nickelodeon were actually supportive of the idea. Basically, they could do absolutely everything except having them actually kiss on-screen. So they went all out, mirroring the final scene of Avatar: The Last Airbender when it came to staging, music and action, just pulling away the camera where the original showed Aang and Katara kissing.

They've also assured us that once Mako finds his own true love, his experiences with both Korra and Asami will help him do a much better job being good to them.

Nick.com has released family trees that give the names of people like Asami's mother.

There was a question and answer period on the avatar wiki, where we find out that Ghazan really did grow his moustache at age 10. Which of the other two of Bolin's predictions is still kept a secret.

Working Title: First Avatar: Legend of Korra, then The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra. The "The Last Airbender" Artifact Title was ultimately dropped, while the "Avatar" supertitle was retained for overseas markets.

Steve Blum had voiced Amon in Season 1, as well as Yao in "Beginnings" and Hundun in the video game. It's especially fun when Varrick tells the refugees his own take on the show's whole story, with Blum also getting new Amon lines in addition to Baraz ones.

Including the rest of the Universe, Dante Basco voiced Zuko and is now Iroh II; Seychelle Gabriel played Princess Yue in the live-action film adaptation but is more remembered as Asami Sato.

In Brazil and Italy, Korra wound up with the same voice as Azula, while in Russia she is Aang.

In Hungary Raava is Azula, Shiro Shinobi is Earth King Kuei and Prince Wu is the original Jet.

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